Bitte Hammargren i SvD: När detta skrivs har ingen tagit på sig dessa fruktansvärda bomber. Men premiärminister Recep Tayyip Erdogan riktar blickarna mot krafter som vill störa fredsprocessen mellan den turkiska staten och den förbjudna PKK-gerillan – eller mot krafter som vill öka motsättningarna mellan de syriska flyktingarna och gränsbefolkningen i Turkiet. Indirekt kan det tolkas som att han anklagar Assadregimen för att ha planterat bomberna.
Bitte Hammargren var SvD:s korrespondent för Turkiet och Mellanöstern 2001-2012. Frilans sedan 2013.
43 dead in Turkey car bombings near Syria - Officials blame deadly blast on Assad regime
Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said the assailants were from Turkey, but were linked to Syria's intelligence service.
"We have to a great extent completed our work toward identifying the assailants," he told reporters. "We have established that the organization and assailants have links to the pro-regime mukhabarat [intelligence] organization."
He did not name the group.
Turkey blames Syria after car bombs kill dozens near border
Deputy prime minister says Syrian regime's intelligence agency and armed groups are 'usual suspects' in attack on Reyhanli...The Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, earlier also raised the possibility that the bombings may be related to Turkey's peace talks with Kurdish rebels meant to end a nearly 30-year-old conflict.
ALJAZEERA: Turkey blames Syria-linked groups for blasts
THE WORLD: Turkey, Syria Border Blasts Kill Dozens, Assad Forces 'The Usual Suspects'
Earlier, another deputy prime minister, Bulent Arinc said: "Our thoughts are that their mukhabarat and armed organizations are the usual suspects in planning and the carrying out of such devilish plans," he said.
Arinc said the attacks were still being investigated, but that If it's proven that Syrian was behind the attack, Turkey would "do whatever is necessary," without specifying if that included military action.
One of the car bombs exploded outside the city hall while the other went off outside the post office. Reyhanli, a main hub for Syrian refugees and rebels in Turkey's Hatay province, is just across the border from Syria's Idlib province. Private NTV television, citing unnamed security sources, said the explosions were remote-controlled and that plastic explosives were used.
